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Three proposals funded through association's TREAT amyotrophic lateral sclerosis program

Published in Gene Therapy Weekly, February 16th, 2006

The ALS Association (ALSA) has funded three proposals through its new TREAT ALS initiative, Translational Research Advancing Therapy for ALS, a program that accelerates discovery and testing of clinical candidates for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, also called Lou Gehrig disease).

Two of the grants fund early stage clinical trials that are testing new therapeutic strategies in ALS patients. These trials must now be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) before proceeding to enroll patients. A third grant allows investigators to produce a test to show whether a candidate treatment is affecting the targeted aspect of the disease process.

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